Events
Week of Events
Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945
Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China, 1937-1945
When China’s War of Resistance against Japan began in July 1937, it sparked an immediate health crisis throughout China. In the end, China not only survived the war but emerged from the trauma with a more cohesive population. Intimate Communities … Read more
*CANCELLED* Vivek Wadhwa, “Solving the Grand Challenges of Humanity Through Technology and How India Will Lead the Way”
*CANCELLED* Vivek Wadhwa, “Solving the Grand Challenges of Humanity Through Technology and How India Will Lead the Way”
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Vivek Wadhwa will deliver a lecture, “Solving the Grand Challenges of Humanity Through Technology and How India Will Lead the Way,” at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, 2019, in the Nelson Mandela Auditorium in … Read more
Language Ecologies of the Anthropocene: Ngoi Bunong
Language Ecologies of the Anthropocene: Ngoi Bunong
Language is a central medium through which cultural systems operate. In the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Peoples’ Languages, the vast majority of these languages are at risk of losing their vitality, with some already gone to sleep. The precarity … Read more
Waste and Well-being in Postwar Japan with Eiko Siniawer
Waste and Well-being in Postwar Japan with Eiko Siniawer
In this lecture, Professor Eiko Maruko Siniawer will examine how ideas about waste and wastefulness have shifted in postwar Japan, from the mid-1940s through the present day. Discussions of what constituted a waste of time, stuff, and resources, she will … Read more
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